Contemporary R&B singer, songwriter, and producer Jordan Bratton was only nine years old when he played Simba in a Broadway production of The Lion King, but he eventually gravitated more toward music. Bratton caught the attention of the RCA label, who signed him on the strength of a performance that impressed. In late 2013, Bratton started to build interest outside his native New York with a free digital-download mixtape, The Grey Area, for which he provided all the production work and, rather daringly, made without a single guest spot. The following year, he was credited as c...